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pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.

ertain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.

The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.

of ten days each, the week being abolished. The names of the months in their order were, Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor (sometimes called Fervidor), and Fructidor. This calendar was abolished December 31, 1805, and the ordinary one restored J…

One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.

Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.

To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of vending, or selling; sale.

A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

en (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.

See Wends.

A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction. [Obsoles.] Vendue master, one who is authorized to sell any property by vendue; an auctioneer. [Obsoles.]

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

The chub. Walton.

The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.

Not vendible or salable. Jefferson. -- In*vend"i*ble*ness, n.

mon in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.